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Traditionally, but they just announced the mana regeneration nerf across the board and specifically, Divine Plea is gonna be the new Avenging Wrath...never used. It's going to be 50% healing reduction again (didn't they learn anything from the outcry during wrath beta?).

I wouldnt care if they nerfed all the classes down to pally standard gameplay. You know, using autoattack (which is your best dps) and having a bunch of nice to have but someone else does it better moves. Pretty soon they will remove autoattack and pallys will have to individually spam an attack button..

I don't see any (more) nerfs to paladins. Perhaps BoS would get hit, but mostly as a group thing, with warriors potentially getting an alternative and others being possible for other classes. If anything this could mean BoS as a passive ability, meaning one less blessing to worry about, and removing the problem of prot having two blessings, both that are very desirable.

We already see the DP change. I can't see much else for Holy, especially considering they specifically mentioned NOT nerfing Illumination. There is the SA change, but I don't see that being too huge.

If anything we're due for some buffs, such as SS scaling for ret.

@Suicidal ZebraIt's worth remembering that the WoW playerbase is semi-inverse to a normal population. It's at the end of the work week that we get ready for fun, including gaming. Also Fridays are generally less productive, perhaps because of a few million more workers on the forums.

I suppose the thing that's interesting to me is that they're perhaps meddling with the wrong talent. As a disclaimer, I'm not a raider, nor am I decked out in epics. I've got over 18k mana unbuffed so it's rare that I have issues.

When I do, though, there's one spell I always turn to that's incredibly powerful: Judgment of Wisdom. Since that works off your maximum mana and not your base, I get absurd mana regen, with no healing penalty. The additional benefits to judging also manifest since I've dabbled Ret with Holy.

I use Divine Plea, and think it a good spell, but for PvE I find that JoW is really much more effective. It's a bit of a different bent on healing from what we who stand in the back are used to (why am I so close?!?!), but if it lets me heal the party during Sarth with constantly full mana, I'm all in.

I have advocated a nerf to JoW for a while now, and I still do. I would almost prefer that to be nerfed instead of DP, but perhaps this is focused more on PvP healers?